Master the World | Wine Kit

A Blind tasting is tasting wine with no information about the wine. By blind tasting, individuals can evaluate the wine by sight, smell, and taste using their senses to form their own opinion of the wine.

I recently received a wine tasting kit for my WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) course. It was produced by Master the World, and is meant to be a blind tasting kit. However, all of the wines have sleeved labels that allow the individual to reveal each wine to those who cannot wait.

Now, what is a blind tasting? A #blindtasting is tasting wine without any information about the wine. Wine labels can create biases on how a glass of wine should smell and taste. By blind tasting, individuals can evaluate the wine by sight, smell, and taste using their senses to form their own opinion of the wine.

Master the World provides monthly zoom webinars that anyone is able to join whether you purchased a tasting kit for that month or not. Participants can also attend a “Happy Half Hour” Q & A session with the winemakers after the tasting session and have one-on-one time with the vintners. All monthly webinars are available on demand as well. The best part, all webinars are free. To follow along with a tasting, purchasing a monthly kit costs $90 and the site advertises webinar dates and the kit that corresponds each webinar. At no cost, the webinar is a great way to learn from master sommeliers about the attributes of wine varietals.

Last month, the tasting kit focused on Oregon Pinot Noir. As a Pacific Northwest native, and a #novicewinedrinker, the discussion was truly enlightening. Individuals can taste the wine with experienced vintners and understand the soil used to produce the grapes and how elevation can impact the taste and look of the final product. In addition, the winemakers provide descriptors of the wine while tasting making it easier to understand the taste associated with a wine descriptor. There are so many words used to describe the taste of wine that it can become confusing. For example, some tasting videos describe the taste as irony or having a subtle note of schist rock.

What the hell does that mean?! By the way, schist rock tastes like chalk or you can also find out by licking a wet stone. Yes, I proceeded to lick a stone after I read this in a blog to confirm if this is true. The rock tasted like dirt. 😒

With this informational setup, the #tastingkits allow a novice like myself to drink the wine with the #winemaker, taste it repeatedly, and pick up the taste of different wine descriptors as the #vintners go into depth on how the wine is made and why it tastes the way it does.

Master the World has many tasting kit options available including a monthly or annual subscription. These options send a blind tasting kit once a month which includes the monthly webinars (live or on-demand). The site also has an “a la carte” plan so the kit can be purchased separately with no monthly subscription. The tastings can even be sent as gifts. Who wouldn’t want wine as a gift?!

If you would like more information about the different options available on the Master the World website, click on this link: https://mtwwines.com/

I am excited to use this blind tasting kit to hone in on my tasting skills. Do you have any experience with other tasting kits? Drop a comment below and include the information about the tasting kit you tried so I can give it a try.

#Cheers